Surge Protectors As Fast As Possible

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8 жыл бұрын

Surge protectors that promise to protect your expensive equipment have been around for a long time. How well do they deliver on their claims, and what should you buy?
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@sierra_bravo6388 8 жыл бұрын

i have a surge protector for my surge protector. oh and the first surge protector is connected to a battery back up bank.

@Ray-dx2pf 8 жыл бұрын

+The silent gamer Talk about prepared

@sierra_bravo6388 8 жыл бұрын

+raven still i still have set up my whole home power generator/mini nuclear power plant

@Ray-dx2pf 8 жыл бұрын

Zombie Apocalypse here i come.

@sierra_bravo6388 8 жыл бұрын

+raven still well more like widespread power outage apocalypse. for the zombie one i have a separate bunker

@patttpatttyoooo 8 жыл бұрын

+The silent gamer dude in my area, no one would be willing to take nuclear waste! how do you manage to get rid of the waste?

@muiscnight 7 жыл бұрын

Oh god I thought all these years power strips had surge protection. At least none of my consoles never fried

@Bwong55 4 жыл бұрын

Thats why to buy 15£ power strips not £5 power strips

@austinhodges3976 3 жыл бұрын

Some do, some don’t, have to make sure you get the right ones

@After_Tech_Industries 3 жыл бұрын

Get a surge protected power strip with integrated circuit breaker.

@williamreid6255 3 жыл бұрын

When I played Minecraft on my Xbox 360, I always built a house out of wood planks since it was the easiest and quickest to get within an in-game day (around 10 minutes irl) and I’m surprised they never burned down when I put a furnace in ‘em

@bitelaserkhalif 3 жыл бұрын

@Eddie Kittredge got filtered lol

@icrin_ 8 жыл бұрын

"destroy it entirely". it makes me remember some motherboards being fried...i just can't.... remember where i saw it

@icrin_ 8 жыл бұрын

+Icaro Vasconcelos i sense some sarcasm here....

@kerrydascouser123 8 жыл бұрын

+Icaro Vasconcelos You two should get a room.

@dash0173 8 жыл бұрын

+waffle muncher iph u no wut y meen ;0

@EpingGamingg 8 жыл бұрын

+Icaro Vasconcelos hmm i remember something of this kind the legend says they lost 3 mobo's to build a router.

@Reemuson 8 жыл бұрын

+Eping | Gaming & More I think you forgot something else, I don't know, I Xeon?!

@2facedjoker 8 жыл бұрын

Those electrons at 1:33 look an awful lot like atoms

@joegaming4369 8 жыл бұрын

they couldn't find that in clip art XD

@MrNudnick 8 жыл бұрын

+2facedjoker also the electrons go from the negative to the positive instead of the other way around

@2facedjoker 8 жыл бұрын

+Joe Mills You're not wrong but electrons are usually represented on paper as "e-" or just "e".

@Kurukx 8 жыл бұрын

+2facedjoker And there flowing from positive to negative which is wrong too.

@SirElliottatk 8 жыл бұрын

+2facedjoker they many not be electrons all electricity is a moving charged particle

@Tonythechief1 8 жыл бұрын

Rip to my brother's HDTV that got fried from a lightning strike and wasn't connected to a protector. At least our whole house is surge protected now, which I never knew was possible.

@soundspark 3 ай бұрын

I believe nowadays it is code required for new construction.

@daserfomalhaut9809 8 жыл бұрын

This was actually one of the most informative and useful videos I've seen on this channel. I usually just watch this for entertainment, but this has a great deal of valuable insight I can pass on to family members less in the know about electronics and even less on how to protect them. Highly appreciated video!

@WoahWoah378 8 жыл бұрын

0:17 Poor Dennis xD

@ankit22sharma 8 жыл бұрын

I didn't know that the earth pin in North America is cylindrical not flat.. That's what I learnt in this video!

@UntouchedWagons 8 жыл бұрын

+Ankit Sharma It's also longer than the hot and neutral pin so that any shorts can be grounded as quickly as possible.

@UntouchedWagons 8 жыл бұрын

+Ankit Sharma It's also longer than the hot and neutral pin so that any shorts can be grounded as quickly as possible.

@GrayWolfTech 8 жыл бұрын

+UntouchedWagons Actually it's longer so that the ground connects first when you plug it in.

@ankit22sharma 8 жыл бұрын

I knew it's longer.. I just didn't know it was rounded off

@UntouchedWagons 8 жыл бұрын

+GrayWolfTech That's more or less what I said.

@iMiniBiscuits 8 жыл бұрын

"10 dollars for absolutely free" okay linus.

@0-Elias-0 7 жыл бұрын

Today, some handyman was working in my neighborhood. He knocked the power out for ≈ 10 minutes. My computer was nearly fried; but luckily I was able to do a few thinger-ma-jigs to get it booted back up.

@MrRealtalk84 2 жыл бұрын

This was funny as hell and informative. Great job man on the video.

@callumvanheerden1530 6 жыл бұрын

This is really one of the best channels no youtube, its short and sweet yet still gives just enough info to educate you.

@One-Cut 8 жыл бұрын

5:09 "That's right; ten dollars for absolutely free..." - Linus Hahaha! Please tell me that I am not the only one who caught that...

@skylark304 7 жыл бұрын

I do highly appreciate for your plain talk . this is a great info channel

@NeXMaX 8 жыл бұрын

This video reminds me of that time a few months ago where a lightning strike took out our TV, satellite + cable TV STB, Apple TV and the WAN port on the router. They were all connected to a Belkin surge protector. Guess it was too strong for it. Had to get a new set of AV equipment. And a new surge protector that offers more protection than the one before. Tripp-lite surge protectors seem to work out really well for many.

@ahmadaamer6 4 жыл бұрын

APC and Monoprice makes nice surge protectors. I have different models from both brands everywhere around my house.

@josephberto5106 8 жыл бұрын

this video was quite shocking

@kuusakat1308 4 жыл бұрын

haha

@freakysnuke2571 3 жыл бұрын

😐

@0divide136 3 жыл бұрын

✔✔✔FUNNY ALERT?!?!? *NOT CLICKBAIT* (REAL POLICE CALLED) (PUN FOUND😯😯😯😯) 😱👍✌🤩🙂✔💘🤩😠🙂😳

@TripleSuccotash1 8 жыл бұрын

Hey Linus I've had a couple years of college for EE and I can say that the best way Voltage was ever described to me was "electrical pressure" so I like to pass that phrase on when I can :D

@totallyfrozen 4 жыл бұрын

Bweiss1234 Then what is amperage?

@OGfancy420 2 жыл бұрын

@@totallyfrozen the amount of whatever is flowing at a time and causing pressure. If you think of it as water in a water hose, the amps is the amount of water that is coming out every second.

@edkoga7321 7 жыл бұрын

Nicely made video, maybe you should inform people of the different types of suppressors and their uses! Also can I stack my type 2 suppressors and get more bangs for my bucks ?

@iDEaXANA 8 жыл бұрын

1:47. I was using noise cancelling headphones and I found that scary ;(;(

@SwirlingDragonMist 8 жыл бұрын

I love your videos, the quick format is great! I have three questions 1. What if you chain several surge protectors together? what happens if they are not identical in terms of clamping voltage or joule rating? 2. If you have a power conditioner, and a surge protector, and a UPS is there a sequence which they would most optimally be chained? 3. Will using a surge-protector, with a power conditioner on the same breaker allow a surge that is safely shunted to ground, to re-enter the electrical wiring through the power conditioners softer interface with the shared ground? is that a thing? like aaaa ground loop of death!...?. 4. BONUS QUESTION! what about a really, really,... ReALLy.... BiG magnet!

@Loner4life20 Жыл бұрын

All of these good questions and no answers.

@stephenchurns6634 2 жыл бұрын

Is this too outdated ?

@michaelbeckerman7532 Ай бұрын

Entirely. It really needs a redo/update at this point. It makes no mention at all of the other type of surge protectors that offer FAR more protection than the MOV ones he's covering in this video: Series mode, inductance-based surge protectors like the ones from SurgeX, BrickWall and Audioquest. Those are much more expensive, of course, but they can take surges up to 6000v/3000A several thousand times over without having to be replaced.

@DrMatt96 8 жыл бұрын

1:30 electricity actually flows from negative to positive

@jaywalt1311 8 жыл бұрын

Yes it does. "Hole flow" or conventional current flows from positive to negative.

@DrMatt96 8 жыл бұрын

PhilfreezeCH yeah but we aren't living in Benjamin Franklin's time

@aaronlowe3156 6 жыл бұрын

Okay, so the answer to this is actually a gray area. In physics, electrons travel from negative to positive. This is the actual way electricity flows. But, electrical engineers write wiring diagrams and understand semiconductors under the assumption that electricity goes from positive to negative. Either way is fine and it really just depends on the environment.

@greenjosh75 4 жыл бұрын

I just had 2 power surges in one month in this shitty hotel I'm staying and it ruined my $1,300 gaming laptop! 😠

@SFSAtlas 3 жыл бұрын

Report them

@CoolJosh3k 8 жыл бұрын

I would like to see a video comparing different quality surge protectors. What is the minimum ratings for a single office PC vs a dual PC workstation?

@annelisemeier283 8 жыл бұрын

If Thor is angry at ya and threatens to unleash his wrath on you by hitting you with mjölnir a power surge would be my last of worries ...

@MrGraeme 8 жыл бұрын

In my relatively remote part of Scotland we don't have power hungry Aircon units and we dont have many lightning storms. all plugs & devices are fused, all homes have fuse/breaker boxes. I've never had or heard of anyone who (at least in Scotland) has had a Surge and all their electrical equipment has been fried.

@therealb888 8 жыл бұрын

Do they have inbuilt circuit tripping feature to protect against short circuits & high currents? Also do any ups come with inbuilt surge protector?

@joseph2705 4 жыл бұрын

Can you make a video testing major brand surge protectors please?

@ryans413 8 жыл бұрын

I don't plug anything directly into the wall out let I always use a surge protection first. My TV Sound System Computer Game console Internet Router exc all plug into it first plus I also use it for Cable lines and Ethernet lines and Phone lines. I had a surge spike once fried everything I owned.

@abc140290 8 жыл бұрын

How do you know when it's run out of surge protection?

@desolatetree 8 жыл бұрын

How do you know if your surge protector is bad? I've had this one for a good while now.

@heyster3 8 жыл бұрын

can you recommend some surge protectors? or did you already make a video on that one.

@evangalinsky2499 8 жыл бұрын

There are also surge protectors that have a fuse in them, and if too much current runs through that fuse, it'll break. Thus not allowing any current through to anything plugged into it. Wish he would've mentioned that.

@bliitzthefox-neverafairfig5281 6 жыл бұрын

i had a surge protector, but the lighting just fried my computers via Ethernet so still screwed, don't forget to protect that too.

@uozouozo 4 жыл бұрын

good thing i installed wifi kit for my pc

@wxwx7560 8 жыл бұрын

About the "high number of joules", do you mean as in accumulated amount over its lifetime or in one instance? (given the 'last longer' that you added)

@acuraonly 3 жыл бұрын

thanks linus!! great vid

@blackilluzionz 8 жыл бұрын

Wouldn't a voltage surge simply reduce current draw limited by the resistance of the load?

@TwitcyTrain 2 жыл бұрын

Linus Nye the science guy

@DYoungDrift 4 жыл бұрын

THANK you.

@stitchfan_8290 Жыл бұрын

The power strip surge protector is helpful as it gives some protection, and if there is a nearby storm you can unplug just the power strip, and not have to individually unplug the TV, and the Cable box, and the Game console, and the Sound System.

@kctyphoon 4 ай бұрын

I had no idea that a surge protected power strip would still work after a power surge. The joule rating is cumulative. It can be used up over 10 years in 100 small surges, or all at once. But if you CANT SEE the indicator light, or your surge protector doesnt have an aubile alarm, youd never know it wasnt working anymore. I just lost my washer and dryer from damage to my power line from a storm and a surge protector that was likely no longer working. Hower my 86" tv and home theater was likely saved from a new surger protector with a high joule rating i bought last year. That thing popped so loud i heard it happen and could see the glow from the indicator light went off under my media console. I immediately unplugged all that.

@imnotEFG 8 жыл бұрын

Linus! Please do a tech quickie on wireless saturation. Thanks!

@tylerdavenport8661 5 жыл бұрын

My power supplies keep breaking within hours, is this apower surge or could a faulty motherboard cause them to break? Also will a surge protector stop my power supply breaking?

@cebuanostud Жыл бұрын

So is it necessary to plug my power supply to a surge protector strip or could I plug it straight to a wall ac?

@Sonicrush007 7 жыл бұрын

The Xbox One power brick has a built in surge protector but no third prong. So where are the voltages going to?

@SanyaIVLitvyak 8 жыл бұрын

So how DO you protect your electronics from lightning strikes? (For the general user)

@gravejames7221 Жыл бұрын

so here is basically the summary. don't use a surge protector because they likely will stop being useful after a couple surges, and you have to physically unplug it anyway after that, so...why not just unplug the electronics during storms. kinda defeats the purpose. don't use UPS system back up power supplies because they need to be powered on constantly and charge constantly even when off and make your power bill go up. some of them also beep and make noise. so basically what it comes down to is....just. DONT use anything. its best to keep an eye on the weather and unplug during bad storms or just keep UPS power supply unplugged and only plug it in and plug stuff into during bad storms to be prepared. there is no easy way to deal with this issue apparently. everything requires you to physically keep an eye on things and unplug or plug things.

@OfffTheGoop 6 ай бұрын

Are you dense? Bad weather doesnt account for all surges, in fact they account for less than half. He even says in the video like wtf

@Minex-rc9gx 8 жыл бұрын

There was a power surge recently in my area and my MacBook's SSD (Solid State Drive) (Hard Drive) was wiped and damaged and the fan is broken and the heat sensor and 3 wires

@TommyT_ 8 жыл бұрын

I need a black 6 plug surge protector with 2 amp usb outputs in the UK. Any suggestions? not the 2x2 style either just a long single one.

@Blake_Superior 8 жыл бұрын

Do electrons go from positive to negative in Canada?

@ray73864 8 жыл бұрын

Actually, just to correct something (maybe it is true for North America, I don't know), but here in Australia, we have powerboards (what north americans call powerstrips) which come with surge protectors built into them, the cheap ones are only good for 1 surge, but they do exist. Another good thing we have over here is that most home insurances come with burnt motor protection, so if a surge fries the motor in say your vacuum cleaner, the insurance company will replace it

@mashrien 8 жыл бұрын

@0:18 omgdennis you never looked so good.

@iamabearofficial7904 7 жыл бұрын

I have a surge protector that tells me if it has protection or not. It has a green light that says "protection present" if it's on, I have protection. When the limit of Joules hits it, the light would turn off. According to dad, when the Joules limit hits a surge suppressor, it will just not work anymore and my dad knows about it.

@infinitree 4 жыл бұрын

Ok, so, how DO you protect against a lightning strike? Is turning the surge protector switch off enough? Or does it need to be completely unplugged. I just lost over $3k worth of gear due to a lightning strike and everything was plugged into highly rated surge protectors...

@jackster1990 8 жыл бұрын

My house doesn't have the grounding plug on the outlets (Built in the early 1900's - knob and tube wiring). I'm assuming this means even if I use a surge protector power bar it will have no effect? Is there any way to fix this without spending thousands of dollars to re-wire my house?

@nbsdog 8 жыл бұрын

Linus, Thor uses his hammer (Mjölnir) to control lightning.

@vinzer72frie 4 жыл бұрын

I got one that says 134 joules and 2000va/2000w is that enough for a mid range pc gamer?

@EspHack 8 жыл бұрын

what surge protector can I get for a 800w 8000 btu window ac? I see some specifically targeted at 24k btu 220v units or just small electronics, nothing in the middle...

@yes.1 4 жыл бұрын

Anyone else looking this up during a big storm?

@schnitzel438 8 жыл бұрын

1:34 No particles actually move, if I'm not mistaken. Just flow of delocalised electrons through metal/cations.

@aztechzi Жыл бұрын

You're awesome man.. !

@samuelsalonga2337 8 жыл бұрын

hey linus, how circuit breaker works video please?

@frog382 8 жыл бұрын

4:10 Speaking about scrapyard... >_>

@totinospizzarolls4737 8 жыл бұрын

Y U DO DIS LINUS

@heerolim 8 жыл бұрын

any recommendations?

@Ravel327 4 жыл бұрын

Does a surge protector stop protecting after one power outage?

@AnnieO100 7 ай бұрын

I used to make surge protectors at Western Electric in Kansas City, Missouri. They were porcelain.

@DNAblue2112 8 жыл бұрын

So if that power board you showed did not have a surge protector, what is the little black button on the end of it?

@Clarkaraoke 3 жыл бұрын

Here I thought I was being paranoid when I went to the electronics section specifically for a surge protector and not a power strip that I found in the other sections at Walmart. Nope. The surge protector is superiour. Though at 500j I'm feeling a bit cheated. Oh well. Better than nothing!

@Minex-rc9gx 8 жыл бұрын

My new surge protector is 3000 Joules and is not certified by UL and it was the only one at Lowe's so I just got it anyway

@Daniel-fc5ok 7 жыл бұрын

My surge protector has one Ethernet port so what is that for and how can I use it.

@calizonian1775 3 жыл бұрын

I have an ac unit causing power surges and my surge protector doesn't seem to be doing its job although it's new and handles high watts and joules. I give up.

@RaciouS91 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, man!

@IvanRiveraStagea 8 жыл бұрын

Whole house surge protectors/suppressors work best (one can add point of use surge protectors as a second line of defense if desired). Whole house units don't cost that much and do a much better job than fancily-packaged point of use units.

@michaelbeckerman7532 Жыл бұрын

Not actually true. A whole-house surge protector normally has a much higher clamping/let-through voltage point than an individual device surge protector does. Because of this, you always want to take a layered approach to surge protection. Never rely on just a whole-house surge protector by itself. It's a good idea to have one at your service panel, for sure, but you should also have individual device surge protection on each of your high-value electronics as well. Keep in mind here that surges can actually come from inside the house (washers and dryers, furnaces, AC systems, garbage disposals, lighting systems, etc.) as well as from outside. Studies have shown that roughly 80% of all surges experienced at a site originate from on-premise equipment. This is why individual surge protectors are still very important, even when a whole-house surge protection device is in place.

@pijen 8 жыл бұрын

0:18 holy crap! Dennis! what are you doing???? :DDDDDDDD

@jfs1988 3 жыл бұрын

Is adding a Protection Plan or Extended Warranty to a Surge Protector pointless?

@Matthewv1998 8 жыл бұрын

Linus...i have a 6-plug protector and then a multiplug protector with a replaceable fuse and built in breaker, overkill? Who knows.

@orionstoy 8 жыл бұрын

good video .. i did learn a little about surge protectors that I didn't know but .... your little graphic with the negative and positive and the (what looks like a representation of) electrons is backwards. Electrons which are the partials that "carry" electricity are negatively charged. A negative terminal has more electrons and the positive terminal has fewer therefor electricity moves from negative to positive because it always tries to "even out". Going from positive to negative is a common misconception ... maybe because everyone sees circuits terminating at ground which is negative they assume that ground is where the electricity "stops" .. lol other than that .. I did like the video ... just thought I would point that out :)

@sirdevio 8 жыл бұрын

I can't unsee the hand-to-pocket promoter advance

@OperaceFlakpanzer 2 жыл бұрын

nice quick guide from a younger version of Linus!

@tullgutten 6 жыл бұрын

My UPS has surge protector and insurance for up to 750 000 USD and i have 3 😅 One for the display. One for the computer. And one for the sound system. It is because the power goes down here in my house and the grid too often and i hate when everything goes in bluescreen or having trouble starting again

@Editionsz 3 жыл бұрын

No way I just now learned this, so obvious😂😭

@CorpusOrganic 8 жыл бұрын

I think using surge protectors in my house might be a moot point then. All my outlets only have two prongs. They don't have the 3rd. We did change out a 220 outlet for a 110. So far nothing has fried. Though my speaker do make a weird popping noise when the fridge kicks on or off. So far between power strips, surge protectors, and UPSs I like UPSs the best. The battery only lasts a few years. Yet they keep the random power outages from corrupting installs and upgrades on the PCs. To bad I am slowly building a stack of dead batteries in the garage though. I don't know of any place that will properly dispose of them here.

@duffunk 7 жыл бұрын

Death OfTime Dude. I thought I was the only one who got weird popping noises from my speakers! I switched outlets and it was fine after that 0.o

@BeefIngot 5 жыл бұрын

Is MET acceptable in place of UL?

@AndrewFugate 7 жыл бұрын

So what if we plugged two surge protectors into each other and then the object? Would it offer more protection, reason I think so is because the first one does the surge and the second one is keeping the rest of the energy stable.

@rileygibson2006 6 жыл бұрын

Req Squad no. Pulls more power through a single plug on the first. More resistance, however more heat and power loss.

@heiditaylor6206 11 ай бұрын

There was a firefighter earlier who said he comes to houses where fires have started because of daisy chaining surge protectors together. He said don’t do it.

@scottschoppert9149 5 ай бұрын

I’m glad I actually bought a proper surge protector with multiple plug in outlets and usb charging

@MaxArceus 7 жыл бұрын

I don't have any 3rd stick on my plugs.

@karthik-gk1dg 3 жыл бұрын

Then whats the difference between the stabilizers and surge protectors??

@htetshineaung1902 8 жыл бұрын

Please do Headphones Burn-in Explanation :)

@markk2745 2 жыл бұрын

Linus didn't cover the surge protector on/off switch. These are set to TURN OFF if a certain amount of voltage is reached and this stops an electric flow. At least that is how the surge protectors in m country work. The 3 prong explaination is not an option in most places in m country. if there is a 3rd prong, i useually use a 3 to 2 prong adapter because no outlets have 3 prongs. So I guess my point is surge protectors work for surges by TURNING OFF the power and stopping current from anything plugged into it from deliverying current until the button is reset. Anyway I dont understand why Linus didn't mention this.

@indianftrtard7899 Жыл бұрын

I believe the built in fuse is engaging when it switches to the off setting. Not all surge protectors have this built in.

@ByronWatts 2 ай бұрын

There are [virtually] no grounded circuits in my neighborhood and 110 is unheard of

@MileytheJeepV2 5 күн бұрын

Unless your whole neighborhood was built before 1960 and nobody ever renovated it doubt that

@supadavidyu 8 жыл бұрын

How about power conditioner vs Battery back up?

@majinRA 8 жыл бұрын

You know the best thing about watching a fast as possible video? It's the perfect length to watch while pooping. 👍🏻

@Jarchersa7 6 жыл бұрын

surge protection is good but if i don't have grounded all house, i have a line off grounding but only in kitchen what will happen if no grounding. . ???